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Diplomatic Activity Amid Mideast Escalation

par This Is Beirut, 04/01 22:55 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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The war between Israel and Hamas, now in its 90th day as of Thursday, was triggered by a bloody and unprecedented attack carried out by the Palestinian Islamist movement on October 7 within Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip. Approximately 1,140 people, predominantly civilians, died in this attack, according to an AFP count based on the latest ...

Jihadists Kidnap Over 100 People in Northeast Nigeria

par This Is Beirut, 07/03 14:13 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Daesh's Nigerian affiliate has been blamed for the recent attack in northeastern Nigeria, which saw over 100 people, mostly women and children, being kidnapped from a number of displacement camps. More than 100 people are missing after jihadists in northeast Nigeria carried out a mass kidnapping that targeted women and children from ...

Moscow Attack: 93 Killed, 11 Suspects Arrested

par This Is Beirut, 23/03 11:32 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Hours after a terrorist attack on a concert hall near Moscow, Russia said on Saturday that it had arrested 11 people, including four assailants, and reported a new death toll of 93, which it warned could rise. Friday evening's attack, which was claimed by the Islamic State, is the deadliest in Moscow for at least a decade. The Kremlin said the ...

World Leaders Condemn Russian Concert Hall Attack

par This Is Beirut, 23/03 12:23 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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World leaders denounced the deadly attack by gunmen on a Moscow concert hall on Friday that killed at least 93 people and wounded over 100. Ukraine, which has been facing a Russian military offensive for the past two years, was quick to deny any involvement in the attack. “We had nothing to do" with it, presidential aide Mykhailo Podolyak said ...

One Person Killed in Attack Claimed by IS in Kabul

par This Is Beirut, 21/04 13:32 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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An explosive device killed one person and wounded three others in Kabul on Saturday evening, police in the Afghan capital announced. The attack was claimed by the Islamic State of Khorasan (EI-K) group. "An adhesive bomb exploded under a minibus in the Kot-e-Sangi district of Kabul. The driver was killed and three other civilians wounded," ...

Russia Finally Says Islamic State Behind Deadly Moscow Attack

par This Is Beirut, 24/05 10:21 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Russia said on Friday for the first time that the Islamic State coordinated the March concert hall attack in Moscow, the country's deadliest terror attack in two decades. "In the course of the investigation... it has been established that the preparations, the financing, the attack and the retreat of the terrorists were coordinated via the ...

HRW Calls on Iraq to Exhume Mass Graves to Ensure Justice

par This Is Beirut, 13/08 17:46 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Human Rights Watch (HRW) called on the Iraqi government to "intensify efforts" on Tuesday, to exhume victims of the successive conflicts that have plagued the country. "To advance justice and accountability for victims and their families, the Iraqi government should intensify efforts to exhume graves, identify victims, return remains to families ...

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